Guitar Scales 22 Fret System

By Mike P Hayes

A major reason why many guitarists never master guitar scales is that they try to learn too many at once. The key is to learn one scale at a time by practicing the guitar scales 22 fret system you will learn to unlock the fingerboard and be free to express yourself over the entire fingerboard.

Good knowledge of the fretboard will enable you to: improvise better, learn songs quicker, learn more chords and Scales, read music. I definitely recommend memorizing or becoming familiar with the fretboard.

Rather than aimlessly practicing guitar scales, you want to become laser focused. What guitar scales you need to learn, in order to play the style of music that you love.

If you are studying with a private teacher make certain that teacher can help you achieve your goals, there’s not much point asking a classical guitar tutor what scales you need to learn for jazz guitar.

To learn and master every possible guitar scale out there would take many lifetimes. It is more intelligent and far less frustrating to select an appropriate scale for your style of music and learn that scale as a 22 fret scale system.

Scales create patterns on the fretboard which players visualize and memorize. The important thing when learning scales is to take the time to learn the names of the notes your are playing under your fingers NOT just the fingering patterns.

The guitar scales 22 fret system can easily be adapted to any guitar no matter how many frets you have. Since most electric guitars have 22 frets the 22 fret scale system is the one I’ll concentrate on here.

The guitar scales 22 fret system an also be applied to acoustic guitar, most acoustic guitars have 12 to 15 frets available, the 22 fret scale system can be modified to suit your favorite acoustic guitar.

The guitar scale 22 fret, three note per string scale system part one:

We will be working entirely in the key of C major.

The key of C major C D E F G A B C

(a) Concept # 1 think of this C major scale as being on an endless loop (like a conveyer belt going round and round) ….. C D E F G A B C D E F G A B C D E F G A B C etc

(b) Now imagine we where able to start at ANY point on this conveyer belt

(c) The concept of the three note per string scale system is very simple, you play three notes from your chosen scale on each string then move to the next string, play three notes and then move to the next string, play another three notes and then on to the next string etc.

Here is your project:

1. Play the following notes on the sixth string:

F note played with your first finger

G note played with either your second or third finger which ever is comfortable

A note played with your fourth finger

2. Play the following notes on the fifth string:

B note played with your first finger

C note played with your second finger

D note played with your fourth finger

3. Play the following notes on the fourth string:

E note played with your first finger

F note played with your second finger

G note played with your fourth finger

4. Play the following notes on the third string:

A note played with your first finger

B note played with your third finger

C note played with your fourth finger

5. Play the following notes on the second string:

D note played with your first finger

E note played with your third finger

F note played with your fourth finger

6. Play the following notes on the first string:

G note played with your first finger

A note played with either your second or third finger which

ever is comfortable

B note played with your fourth finger

Do you understand the concept? Play three notes from the C Major scale on the sixth string (starting from the note “F” within the C major scale)

Play the notes F. G. A on the sixth string, then move to the fifth string and play the next three notes from the C major scale B, C, D.

Don’t worry about the sound of this scale, it is intended to sound incomplete, it’s part of a giant linkage system I will explain to you.

Practicing guitar music scales is one of the key elements to learning the basics of guitar. When you learn the guitar scales 22 fret system you get the total picture. You get to see guitar scales played note for note right over the entire fretboard.

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